Code gets corrected when page saved

[thisisandrew]

I insert some PHP code into my pages title tag and when I save the page
Frontpage turns some characters into their HTML entity equivalents.

e.g. <title>Page Tile - <?php echo $variable; ?> </title>
turn to <title>Page Tile - <?php echo $variable; ?> </title>

When I place an HTML entity £ into the code of my page then click save it
converts it into the ASCII character £ which then looks like ? when the
server serves the page.

e.g. <td>Price: £ <?php echo $price; ?> </td>
turns to <td>Price: £ <?php echo $price; ?> </td>

Any ideas why this may be happening? Maybe I shouldn't be attempting to use
Frontpage when I'm writing PHP code in the page as well!?

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen [FP-MVP]]

Change your PHP to use <% %>
that way Frontpage will leave your code alone.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

 

[Corey Bryant]

The codes you gave are the same.

For the £ - are you using & p o u n d ; (without the spaces)?

What charset are you using? Check out
http://www.iwdn.net/showthread.php?t=2864 for more information on this

 

[thisisandrew]

Thanks. I tried your suggestion but no luck.

Change your PHP to use <% %>
that way Frontpage will leave your code alone.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

 

[thisisandrew]

Thanks. Your mention of charsets got me looking in more detail. The page had
2 charset declarations!

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
then later
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Removing the iso charset appears to have fixed the problem. It now leaves
all HTML entities alone and leaves my PHP code alone too!

Thanks for your help

 

[Corey Bryant]

Glad to have helped. It is usually the charset that wil causes some
problems. Hopefully those articles helped to explain them as well.

Good luck with the site!